Summer Haw 



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lo. SMALL'S HAW — Oratsegrus lacrimata Small 



Small's haw grows in sandy woods and along borders of streams of western 

 Florida. It is a large shrub or a small tree, 

 3 to 5 meters high, with drooping branches 

 forming a handsome roxmd-topped crown; the 

 bark is ashy-gray, deeply furrowed; the twigs 

 are orange-brown becoming gray-brown, smooth, 

 and are armed with numerous small straight 

 chestnut-brown spines from i to 2.5 cm. long. 



The leaves are wedge-spatulate, 10 to 20 mm. 

 long, 5 to 15 mm. wide, rounded, square cut, or 

 pointed at the apex, strongly wedge-shaped at 

 the base, glandular-toothed above the middle 

 with small curved teeth, 3-nerved, smooth, yel- 

 low-green, half- leathery; leaf-stalks slightly 

 hairy, wing- margined above, 5 to 15 mm. long. 

 The flowers are about 2 cm. broad in i-to 5- 

 flowered smooth corymbs; calyx- lobes lanceo- 

 late, long-pointed; stamens about 20; anthers 

 bright yellow; styles 3 to 5. The fruit ripens late in August; it is globose or short- 

 oblong, dull brownish yellow, about 8 mm. thick, calyx-lobes spreading; flesh thin, 

 yellow, dry; it contains 3 to 5 nutlets, commonly 3 or 4, 5 to 6 mm. long, slightly 

 ridged on the back, the nest 6 to 7 mm. thick. 



Fig. 400. — Small's Haw. 



II. SUMMER HAW — CratsBgus flava Aiton 



Fig. 401 . — Summer Haw. 



This species occurs in sandy thickets from 

 Virginia to Florida and Texas. It is a tree 

 sometimes 8 meters high, with spreading or 

 ascending branches, forming a broad irregular 

 top; the bark is dark brown, scaly; the twigs 

 are red-brown and armed with chestnut- 

 brown spines i to 6 cm. long. 



The leaves are oval, ovate or obovate, 2 

 to 5.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 4 cm. broad, pointed 

 at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, cre- 

 nate-toothed or lobed toward the apex, with 

 gland-tipped teeth, thin, smooth at maturity, 

 yellow-green; leaf-stalks winged toward the 

 apex, glandular, 5 to 15 mm. long. The 

 flowers are about 15 mm. wide in few-flowered 

 hairy corymbs; the calyx-tube is nearly smooth, 



